What the Heck?! Thread (Closed)

Status
Not open for further replies.
SteelBird

SteelBird

Colonel
Miragedriver said:
Wow! The earth is the centre of the Universe! I did not know that? Has Ptolemy made a comeback and I didn’t notice?
Well Copernicus must be turning over in his grave.

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
Click to expand...

If the universe has a center point means that it does also have boundaries. What do you expect its boundaries to be, and what's outside those boundaries?
 
Miragedriver

Miragedriver

Brigadier
The French comic with the stand-up routine in Chinese – a language he doesn’t understand

A French comedian’s one-man show in Mandarin becomes a surprise hit – even though he doesn’t understand his own jokes

From Daily Telegraph, UK

He understands only the odd word of Chinese, but that has not stopped Patrick Veisselier performing a stand-up routine in Mandarin that has Chinese audiences in stitches. And it is not just his pronunciation that they are laughing at.
Mr Veisselier’s 90-minute one-man show in Paris has been playing to packed houses. Most of his audience are ethnic Chinese born in France, which has one of Europe’s largest Chinese communities.

The blue-eyed, round-faced 41-year-old from Lyon learns his gags by heart, but he also uses a teleprompter, with the script written out phonetically, in case he forgets his lines.

The audience can read the jokes in both French and Chinese on a giant screen behind him. May, a 26-year-old woman who saw the show, said: “He really gets the Chinese sense of humour.”

He said he came up with the idea after a Chinese friend told him that China had hardly any comedians, while there were a lot in France but their jokes did not often make Chinese people laugh.

Mr Veisellier worked with Chunjuan Jia-Sauvage, a bilingual Chinese French woman, to produce a script in Mandarin.
“I tested the jokes on different Chinese people in Paris and they worked,” Mr Veisselier said. “I rehearsed the show with my translator and learned it by heart, phrase by phrase. It’s all gobbledegook to me but it has to be exactly the same gobbledegook each time.”

Apart from the occasional one-liner in French, the show is all in Chinese. “It’s fantastic being in France,” he announces to the audience. “You’re free to criticise François Hollande. And it’s the same in China. You’re free to criticise François Hollande there too.”

He has never visited China, but plans to take the show there in three months.
He says he is now going to learn the language seriously, rather than just for laughs.
Click to expand...
 
Miragedriver

Miragedriver

Brigadier
It is nice of them to clean the Whales
ld3o6B5.jpg


A sick place to stay
etOG300.jpg


Al Qaida special
Wit7ry9.jpg
 
B

B.I.B.

Captain
solarz said:
Actually, mankind was created by the goddess Nuwa who fashioned them out of yellow earth. ;)
Click to expand...

While trying to find out more about Nu Wa I came across a lot of cos play type images representing to be her, but actually they look like characters from final fantasy.

I also came across this about beautiful women causing the downfall of empires, so be careful Equation

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top